HeyGen CEO: open models will win video and voice just like they did LLMs
toolstelegraph · x · 2026-11-03
HeyGen founder Joshua Xu argues open-source models will beat closed ones in video and voice, replicating the LLM trajectory where open models now serve most tokens. HeyGen Video launched this month and HeyGen Voice hit #1 on Artificial Analysis. His takeaway: once anyone can get a great model, the moat shifts to products, distribution and data above the model layer.
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